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Secrets over Sweet Tea
Copyright © 2013 by Denise Hildreth Jones. All rights reserved.
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Proverbs 4:23, quoted in chapter 22 and the acknowledgments, is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version,® NIV.® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com.
Secrets over Sweet Tea is a work of fiction. Where real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales appear, they are used fictitiously. All other elements of the novel are drawn from the author’s imagination.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Denise Hildreth, date.
Secrets over sweet tea / Denise Hildreth Jones.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4143-6684-5 (sc)
1. Secrets—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Franklin (Tenn.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.I424S43 2013
813'.6—dc23 2012030519